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Thursday, 6 February 2014

The Toad - Infamy Miniatures

So I made a little promise with James the owner of Infamy Miniatures that I would paint one of his models for Salute to enter in the comp as I have all of them and have yet to paint one.....the forfiet was for me to give him my Reaver, although I am sure he would never have collected. But it was a motivator for sure, but the models are so gorgeous that no motivation is needed just a gentle push to start in the first place.

I chose the Toad the newest release and it hasn't failed to impress me, lovely sculpting by Mihk

Started off by undercoating black and then zenithal highlighting with a white undercoat

Peaky
Blinders is one of my favourite drama series in recent times (yes I
prefer it to game of thrones etc.) and I made a concious decision to use
some of the pictures from the series when I worked on the Toad. Set in
Victorian Burmingham at the turn of the 20th century and based on the
youth gangs of the era, I thought it was the perfect colour palette for a
steampunk gangster like the Toad.

From this picture I went
with Arthur Shelby on the right - he just seemed the perfect fit and the
colours in the skin all just fit in perfectly with what i had in mind
anyway.

Started on the face. I
started with a basecoat of Stained Olive from Reaper to give that
sickly green tinge to the flesh, then added various skin tones to it,
building up to a more human colour yet still retaining a hint of the
Stained Olive.

Sadly, the way I paint is grab a colour without
looking at the name, just whatever seems right, so can't reveal every
flesh tone.

I didn't take the highlights too high at this
stage and began to add some shade with a little Dark Sea Blue from
Vallejo mixed into some skin tone and Stained Olive. I blended this into
the fat folds and then added a tiny amount of black to that for further
shade.

I also used pure Dark Sea Green glazed onto the skin
to insinuate stubble. Finally at this point I wanted to add a little
contrast and colour interest to the skin. Adding some crimson glazing
around the eyes, cheeks and nose (being a perfect contrast to the greens
already in the skin) gave the face some life!

I
started to add more colour by introducing pale yellow and pink glazes
into the highlights, further increasing interest, then finally adding
white to these glazes.

At the same time I worked the other way, improving the shadows with more dark sea green glazes.

At this point I left the skin alone. I have learned from far superior
painters than myself to take parts of a model to a point of 'not quite
finished' and then move on to other areas. This means that once the
other colours are put on the model and start to interact with those
already in situ, you can assess what you need to change.

I started to block out the base colour for the hat and waistcoat and painted the rollie he is smoking.

I also painted the pinstriped shirt using bone colours rather than
white, to give that slightly used feel rather than a box-fresh bleached
and starched shirt

I started to work up the colour of the hat and waist coat, starting
with a base colour of Bone Shadow and adding progressively more white to
it for the highlights and then adding Stained Olive (used in the skin
and duplicated here to bring the model together as a whole) for the
shade. I also used a little black for the really shaded areas.

On the very light areas you have pure white and on the deepest recesses black giving the area contrast and visual interest.

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